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Afterthoughts : Thank You Universe
My world has contracted to a point where there's my art and nothing else matters. I know we're all doomed, and what I leave here will one day not exist. I'm OK with that because for a brief moment in the time this universe existed I captured beautiful moments with my camera. If only for me to see perhaps. But I can look at the universe and tell it that I appreciate its wonder, the absolute wonder I feel when see a little something that is beyond words. I speak to the Universe sometimes, cursing it for some things, but also praising it for the beauty that others trample over. I thank the Universe for letting me see that wonder.
I was looking for some pictures of my ducks for a friend that asked to see pictures of them when I came up on the following picture.
All three are now gone, and that makes me so unbelievably sad. Donald died a few years before, but my Grandmother and Daisy (the one squirming around on the right) died within two months of each other. I miss them all so much. My aunts say that they love this picture before my Grandmother wasn't one to be overly expressive. They remind me that in nearly all the pictures they have of her she is not smiling. But in this one she isn't just smiling, she's overjoyed, and you can tell.
This is a perfect example of what I was saying before. The Universe is set-up in a way that we have a period of time we're alive and then we're gone. We love people knowing they will die. We don't think about it because it's morbid and a waste of time to do so. But we should count ourselves lucky to have had them in our lives at all. Thank you Universe.
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